THE POPULISM RISE IN EUROPE AND UNITED STATES,POPULISM IS THE MANIFESTATION OF PROBLEM AND DANGEROUS TO GLOBAL DEMOCRACY.

October 20, 2017 at 2:25 pm,

POPULISM : In general, ideology or political movement that mobilizes the population (often, but not always, the lower classes) against an institution or government, usually in the defense of the underdog or the wronged.Although it comes into being where mainstream political institutions fail to deliver, there is no identifiable economic or social set of conditions that give rise to it, and it is not confined to any particular social class.In politics, the term populism can have different meanings depending on who is using it and what their political goals are. At its root, populism is a belief in the power of regular people, and in their right to have control over their government rather than a small group of political insiders or a wealthy elite.An ideology like fascism involves a holistic view of how politics, the economy, and society as a whole should be ordered. Populism doesn’t; it calls for kicking out the political establishment, but it doesn’t specify what should replace it. So it’s usually paired with “thicker” left- or right-wing ideologies like socialism or nationalism.

People who truly believe in conservative values are sickened by white supremacy, and Trump's hesitation to identify Charlottesville as such reveals his true nature as a populist.

A populist groundswell has been building across Europe since the global financial crisis, and it has found a voice in parties on both ends of the political spectrum.A wave of populism already has spread to Eastern Europe, where countries that include Croatia, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia have rightest governments.Last year, the U.K. voted to leave the European Union, or Brexit. The lash against the establishment is one that some say may signal its end. This year, U.S. President Donald Trump backed out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and has attempted to tighten the country's border with plans to build a wall and impose travel restrictions on six Muslim-majority nations.By voting to leave the E.U., the British people showed that the integration of the West is neither inevitable nor irreversible, a message that Trump’s campaign drove home by calling for the U.S. to pull back from its commitments around the world and to focus on “America first.” It is a world where the international agreements of the past are up for renegotiation and the interests of the nation-state are not bound by an established global order. “None of us conform to any of the rules by which politics is operating,” Farage says. “And people like that!”.Since it joined the European Economic Community in 1973 (the EU's purely economic predecessor), no Briton has been thrilled with the country's membership in the continental common market. Traditionally, Euroscepticism was the terrain of the left, with dissident Labour ministers campaigning against the EEC in the first British membership referendum back in 1975. But when the 1992 Maastricht Treaty transformed the common market into a properly political union (with a European parliament and a supranational bureaucracy and all that other fun stuff), right-wing protest parties started popping up on the island, calling for a referendum on membership.The loudest of these, the libertarian-leaning United Kingdom Independence Party, has been pulling progressively higher vote shares since its formation in the early 1990s. This has culminated in UKIP pulling 27.5 percent of the vote in the 2014 European election and winning a seat in the British parliament in 2015.

On June 23, British balloters finally granted Farage his wish, voting to leave the E.U. in the stunning Brexit referendum. The result was one that Europe’s pundits, pollsters, bookies and politicians said would never happen. Farage then spent weeks in the U.S. stumping for Trump, who took to calling himself “Mr. Brexit.”Boris Johnson is one of the main backers of Vote Leave.Britain is in the middle of a heated existential crisis over whether or not it should stay in the European Union.

Populist parties have been surging in polls in Europe and the leaders' mood was celebratory as they came together in support of one another, the day after Donald Trump was sworn in as U.S. president following a campaign buoyed by anti-establishment and protectionist themes.Right-wing leaders from France, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and elsewhere strode confidently into the Koblenz congress hall on the banks of the Rhine River ahead of a flag-waving escort, setting the tone for a gathering whose mood was buoyed by Donald Trump’s swearing-in as U.S. president. The European parties hope for similar success in tapping anti-establishment and protectionist sentiment in elections this year.Something fundamental in Trump’s approach to politics changed around the time that Steve Bannon, now the president’s chief strategist in the White House, joined the businessman’s campaign.Trump’s initial political vocabulary included the corrupt elite but not the pure people. Instead, in rambling speeches, he focused on just one person: himself. The moral dimension of populism “explains why someone like Donald Trump, who clearly is not a commoner, can nevertheless pretend to be the voice of the people.

Geert Wilders, left, Frauke Petry, Harald Vilimsky, Marine Le Pen and Matteo Salvini speak to the media during a conference of European right-wing parties on Jan. 21, 2017 in Koblenz, Germany. France, the Netherlands and Germany all face national elections this year and in each case right-wing populists are in a strong position.